Global Church News
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Mongolia’s House of Mercy ‘not a house: A home!’
Sep 04, 2023
The director of Ulaanbaatar’s “House of Mercy”, blessed by Pope Francis on Monday before departing from Mongolia, says that with the Pope’s blessing, “we continue his will and his love for the poor.”
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The ripening fruit of God’s love in Mongolia
Sep 04, 2023
Pope Francis’s meeting with bishops, priests, missionaries, consecrated men and women, and pastoral workers represents a new beginning for Mongolia's young Church that bears fruit ripening on the steppes.
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Innocent children casualties of war
Sep 01, 2023
Nearly 550 Ukrainian children have been killed since the start of the war following Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, states Save the Children.
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Pope Francis’ historic visit to Mongolia
Sep 01, 2023
Pope Francis continually calls Catholics to go to the “peripheries,” and that is exactly what he did on August 31 when he boarded a plane to Mongolia for an official trip, making him the first Pope to visit this Asian nation.
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San Francisco Archdiocese announces Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing
Sep 01, 2023
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on August 21 announced that the archdiocese would be submitting a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, a development the prelate had earlier warned might come about as a result of numerous abuse filings against the bishopric.
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German cardinal disappointed over staff’s attempts to access pornography
Sep 01, 2023
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki expressed profound disappointment over an internal IT report finding that employees in his Archdiocese of Cologne had attempted to access pornographic websites.
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Pope Francis is writing Laudato Si’ 2.0
Sep 01, 2023
Pope Francis has announced that he is writing a “second part” to his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’.
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Chinese Catholics support flood-affected communities
Sep 01, 2023
Catholics in China have donated funds to support communities hit by recent devastating floods that left at least 62 dead and affected millions of people.
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Pro-life groups march for the Rights of Unborn Children
Sep 01, 2023
Cardinal Oswald Gracias led a “March for Life” in Pune, Maharashtra, to protest India's abortion law.
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What I learned from listening to non-practising Catholics ahead of the Synod
Sep 01, 2023
The Vatican named 363 voting members for October’s Synod on Synodality recently, including Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle at the personal invitation of the Pope.
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Sunday Reflection
God is not like us
God is beyond us. That is what the readings point to this weekend. The fact that God is a mystery and beyond our thinking is not something that should frustrate or disappoint us but, rather, it should be a source of our hope and the ground that we walk on as Christians.
